Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman and Nechami (nee Altein) Charytan (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
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This weeks Living Torah, titled “Maamar – Zeh Ha’yom T’chilas Masecha” (Volume 39, Episode 155).
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
VIdeo of the Day – the Weekly Living Torah Clip
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Maamar – Zeh Ha’yom T’chilas Masecha” (Volume 39, Episode 155).
Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org
Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
CINCINNATI, OH — The Chabad Jewish Center will welcome sacred Sefer Torah, or Torah scroll, on Sunday, Sept. 10, with a gala completion ceremony and live festivities.
Chabad Welcoming a New Torah Scroll
CINCINNATI, OH — The Chabad Jewish Center will welcome sacred Sefer Torah, or Torah scroll, on Sunday, Sept. 10, with a gala completion ceremony and live festivities.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 11:45pm last night the Shomrim hotline received a call for a Bochur that was assaulted with a glass bottle and mugged while on his way home.
Shomrim members responded to President Street and Schenectady Avenue, the corner where the Bochur was assaulted, and began searching for the group that attacked him, in the meantime the Bochur received treatment from Hatzalah on Crown Street between Utica and Schenectady, in front of the apartment he is staying by.
More pictures and information in the Extended Article.
Bochur Attacked with Glass Bottle and Robbed
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 11:45pm last night the Shomrim hotline received a call for a Bochur that was assaulted with a glass bottle and mugged while on his way home.
Shomrim members responded to President Street and Schenectady Avenue, the corner where the Bochur was assaulted, and began searching for the group that attacked him, in the meantime the Bochur received treatment from Hatzalah on Crown Street between Utica and Schenectady, in front of the apartment he is staying by.
More pictures and information in the Extended Article.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Ptalis (Monsey, NY) and Micki Perlman (Los Angeles, CA) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
Another Shipment to the Disaster Area
ICA, Peru [CHI] — On Tuesday three bochurim flew from Lima, Peru to Ica bringing food, clothes and water that was donated by the local Jewish community to the Chabad House with a lot of freshly baked goods. The baked products were baked in the Chabad House in Lima headed by Rabbi S.Z. Blumenfeld, and were sent to be distributed to the people of Ica and Pisco that were affected by the eqarthquake this past Thursday.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Sziget Festival Counts Losses, Chabad Counts Gains
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Organizers of one of Europe’s largest summer events report the weeklong pop music and cultural Sziget Festival which ended last week a major flop. Not so, says Chabad of Hungary.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avrohom Simmonds (Winnipeg, Canada) and Shterna Mann (Oak Park, MI) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
following the attack on him and his wife
He made the charges in a letter just days after an unidentified man broke a window of the town's historic synagogue during afternoon prayers. The man fled the scene and remains on the loose.
In July, Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, chief rabbi of Zhitomir, was attacked outside of his synagogue on the same day that a group of youth tried to break into a girls' dormitory at a Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish school in the city.
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Accuses Government of Inaction in Anti-Semitic Attacks
following the attack on him and his wife
KIEV, Ukraine — Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, chief rabbi of Ukraine, accused government and law enforcement officials of failing to prevent a rash of anti-Semitic attacks in the city, JTA reported on its Web site Wednesday.
He made the charges in a letter just days after an unidentified man broke a window of the town’s historic synagogue during afternoon prayers. The man fled the scene and remains on the loose.
In July, Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, chief rabbi of Zhitomir, was attacked outside of his synagogue on the same day that a group of youth tried to break into a girls’ dormitory at a Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish school in the city.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chesky and Chani Tenenbaum (Gaithersburg, MD) on the birth of a baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
HAMILTON, Canada — Embarrassing as it is to admit, when I first met my father-in-law, Rabbi Zalman Itkin, of blessed memory ñ co-director along with my dear mother-in-law, may she live and be well, Rebbetzin Faigie Itkin, of Chabad-Lubavitch of Hamilton, Canada ñ I was less than impressed. A nice guy, sure; well regarded by all, with a good word and a joke at the ready for everyone he met. People liked him, but was he a success?
The Power of One
HAMILTON, Canada — Embarrassing as it is to admit, when I first met my father-in-law, Rabbi Zalman Itkin, of blessed memory ñ co-director along with my dear mother-in-law, may she live and be well, Rebbetzin Faigie Itkin, of Chabad-Lubavitch of Hamilton, Canada ñ I was less than impressed. A nice guy, sure; well regarded by all, with a good word and a joke at the ready for everyone he met. People liked him, but was he a success?
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Baruch Zvi and Dini Friedman (S Paul, MN) on the birth of a baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
New Project Aids Schoolchildren in Moscow
MOSCOW, Russia – Considering the fact that only two weeks remain until the new school year begins in schools across the Former Soviet Union, a new project has commenced aimed at helping youngsters to get ready for this event. While some families will be sending their child to school for the first time, others may simply need assistance in preparing for September 1st due to reasons of financial incapacity.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehuda Zinnerich (S Antonio, TX) and Yaakova Speiser (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
Four years ago, I received a burned CD copy of an unreleased album. Hastily written on the disc in black marker was the band’s name, The Marcus Brothers. The CD contained an album-worth of explicitly Orthodox rock. It was something of an underground Chabad secret, the group’s core members two real-life brothers, one of them a Lubavitcher emissary in California.
Video of them performing in the Extended Article!
Yeshiva of Rock
Four years ago, I received a burned CD copy of an unreleased album. Hastily written on the disc in black marker was the band’s name, The Marcus Brothers. The CD contained an album-worth of explicitly Orthodox rock. It was something of an underground Chabad secret, the group’s core members two real-life brothers, one of them a Lubavitcher emissary in California.
Video of them performing in the Extended Article!
Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Dina bas Leah
carry the coffin of Prof. Liviu Librescu.
A Hasidic group from Borough Park, Brooklyn, picked up his body and arranged a funeral service.
Representatives of that group were present for the autopsy of Auxiliary Police Officer Eugene Marshalik after he was gunned down in Greenwich Village on March.
The Ultimate Good Deed
Hasidic volunteers give faithful aftercare to Jews who die
carry the coffin of Prof. Liviu Librescu.
Prof. Liviu Librescu grew up in Nazi-occupied Romania, immigrated to Israel and later relocated to Virginia, where he was killed in April in a Virginia Tech classroom.
A Hasidic group from Borough Park, Brooklyn, picked up his body and arranged a funeral service.
Representatives of that group were present for the autopsy of Auxiliary Police Officer Eugene Marshalik after he was gunned down in Greenwich Village on March.
